atomweaver wrote:
"nut" wrote in
:

Jolly Fisherman wrote:
On Tue, 5 Dec 2006 20:41:01 -0000, "nut"
wrote:

atomweaver wrote:
NP. FYI, there is no "cancellling" a post in Usenet.

Yes there is.


There are a few caveats to his advice.

Shouldn't that be "in" his advice? I'm not sure whether you're
slagging him off or defending him.

What he said was wrong, so i corrected him... usenet posts can be
cancelled.

Although often ineffective, a message sent in error *should* be
cancelled... to say that it cannot be is to teach bad manners. We
already have enough goons on usenet - let's not train the puppies to
**** on the carpet eh?

Read the rest of the thread also.

I did, before i replied, but that's of no consequence... a thousand
lines of wisdom may camoflauge a line of nonsense, but it doesn't
stop it being nonsense.


Meh. You're right in that newsreaders have a "cancel message"
command, which will propagate across the newssevers. I've used it,
but if the message hits the Google Groups archive, or another web
interface, before the cancel command propagates, I don't see those
sites pulling them from their archive without further prompting (in
the form of a direct request/command sent to each web interface). So
a sent message is as good as "out there", due to Usenet's
decentralized nature, and the various web interfaces glomming off of
it for web content at various servers (which may or may not recognize
your cancel command). You're absolutely correct, though. A more
correct reply might have been "good luck canceling a Usenet post
before someone replies".

If i'm absolutely correct, how can i be more correct?

Sorry if i appeared obtuse - your explanation is 100%, and we are now in
agreement.



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